RICHMOND, Va. (March 24, 2009) Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain.
In the study, published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings ...

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A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra, led by doctors Manuel Manrique Rodrguez, specialist in ear, nose and throat surgery and Bartolom Bejarano Herruzo, specialist in paediatric neurosurgery...

On Sept. 19, a research report by Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering scientists will appear in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, showing that selective attention increases both gain and feature selectivity of the human auditory cortex.
The ability...

...ting and traditional cancer therapies are not an option. Currently, treatment involves surgical removal of the tumours but this leads to damage of the auditory nerve and can cause total deafness with potentially devastating effects on the lives of those involved.
"Great progress has been made in identifyin...

...rain manage to abstract and disregard irrelevant details to recognize highly variable pictures as the same person?"
While people process visual and auditory information through separate pathways, the information appears to converge in the hippocampus, a section of the brain associated with long-term memory...

...g given to proposals which address basic research on responses to perturbed auditory feedback in children between the ages of 8 and 18, including but not limite...g given to proposals which address basic research on responses to perturbed auditory feedback in children between the ages of 8 and 18, including but not limite...

...tem uses event-related potentials (ERP) to record
brain activity while the patient listens to a sequence of sounds. Subjects
with Alzheimer's process auditory information differently than healthy
individuals and that difference can be detected with the test.
The ability of the ERP method to diagnose ...

...in combination with a short period of oral steroid administration.
auditory (high-frequency hearing loss, decreased hearing) and ocular (lens opacities...eported with Exjade therapy in less than 1% of patients in clinical trials. auditory and ophthalmic testing (including slit lamp examinations and dilated fundos...

...Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Abnormalities in auditory and language processing may be evaluated in childr...researchers an insight into the dysfunction of the auditory processing system in autistic children.
...gnetoencephalography (MEG).
The brain's auditory processing system is delayed a fraction of a secon...

...therapy-induced ototoxicity, and clinical studies should be
pursued," said Stephen Fausti, PhD, and Director of the National Center for
Rehabilitative auditory Research (NCRAR) at the Portland VA, Professor of
Otolaryngology and Neurology at Oregon Health Sciences University.
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Features:... Provides 28% better auditory response (sensitivity) than leading competitor
Designed for use in surgical setting to monitor heart and respiratory sounds and to measure core body...Company:DeRoyal

Features:... Provides 28% better auditory response (sensitivity) than leading competitor
Designed for use in surgical setting to monitor heart and respiratory sounds and to measure core body...Company:DeRoyal

Features:... Provides 28% better auditory response (sensitivity) than leading competitor
Designed for use in surgical setting to monitor heart and respiratory sounds and to measure core body...Company:DeRoyal

Features:... Provides 28% better auditory response (sensitivity) than leading competitor
Designed for use in surgical setting to monitor heart and respiratory sounds and to measure core body...Company:DeRoyal

Features:... Provides 28% better auditory response (sensitivity) than leading competitor
Designed for use in surgical setting to monitor heart and respiratory sounds and to measure core body...Company:DeRoyal

...; opposite the center of the tympanic membrane it is only about 2 mm. ... The Tympanic Membrane (membrana tympani) (Figs. ... the external auditory meatus which conducts sound to the tympanic membrane where ... The lateral wall (AKA membranous wall) is formed by the convex tympanic membra...

... The first type of eye movements believed to have evolved are therefore those ... These eye movements , produced reflexively by visual or auditory alerting stimuli, ... Eye movements tell a lot about vision, even if a child is pre-verbal. ... These eye movements can be constant or int...

The human brain is capable of detecting the slightest visual and auditory changes. Whether it is the flash of a students hand into the air or the faintest miscue of a flutist, the brain instantaneously and effortlessly perceives changes in our environment. Several studies have indicated, however, ...

A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons -- even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future.
The study, which will appear in the April issue of Nature Neuroscience, ...

By studying a gene earlier linked to deafness in humans, researchers now have new insight into the molecular process by which components of the inner ear send messages to the brain. The team reports its findings in the October 20, 2006, issue of the journal Cell, published by Cell Press.
The rese...

...ook a broad snapshot of gene activity in the brain. Using DNA microarray analysis, the researchers measured changes in levels of messenger RNAs in the auditory forebrain of finches exposed to a new song. These mRNAs are templates that allow the cell to translate individual genes into the proteins that do the ...

...m 19 Finnish families with at least some professional musicians and/or active amateurs. The musical aptitude was assessed using three music tests: the auditory structuring ability test (Karma Music test) and Carl Seashore's pitch and time discrimination subtests. Additionally participants filled in an extensi...

...he brain cells in these "higher" regions begin to reflect abstract concepts, such as the shape of human faces, in the visual system or melodies in the auditory system. The brain areas related to our conscious perception of the world are presumably at the top of pyramid.
However, the Case Western Reserve Un...

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NATICK, Mass., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific
Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced that it has completed the sale of
the controlling interests in its auditory business and drug pump
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...l VEGF expression necessary to maintain the growth and function of normal blood vessels. Patients with NF2 typically develop tumors that compress the auditory nerves, often leading to deafness and problems with balance. If unchecked, NF2-related tumors may eventually damage other cranial nerves and the brai...

... concluded that, although processing of visual and auditory information occur along completely separate pathways, the visual and auditory processing routes converge to end up firing the sa... Quian Quiroga said: "The processing of visual and auditory information follows completely different cortical ...

...of high unmet medical need."
Patients with NF2, a rare genetic disorder of the central nervous system, typically develop tumors that compress the auditory nerves, often leading to deafness and problems with balance. If unchecked, NF2-related tumors may eventually damage other cranial nerves and the brai...

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About Cochlear Implants
A cochlear implant is an electronic device that is surgically implanted and works by directly stimulating functioning auditory nerve fibers in the inner ear. Unlike hearing aids, cochlear implants do not amplify sound, but instead are designed to mirror natural hearing. Cochle...

...lly more difficult to treat. Virtually any movement, sensory, or
emotional symptom can occur as part of a partial seizure, including complex
visual or auditory hallucinations. There are two categories of partial
onset seizures: simple partial seizures (in which consciousness is
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...d food, and identify potential mates, among other goals. Visual, touch, and auditory sensory pathways of vertebrates are routed to the thalamus and then to re...ortex that are specific to each sensory system : the visual system , the auditory system and the somatosensory system . Olfactory pathways are routed to th...

... Elastic Cartilage
Elastic cartilage (also called yellow cartilage) is found in the pinna of the ear and several tubes, such as the walls of the auditory and eustachian canals and larynx . Cartilage is present to keep the tubes permanently open. Elastic cartilage is similar to hyaline cartilage but c...

...r balance system , is the sensory system
that provides the dominant input about our movement and orientation in
space. Together with the cochlea, the auditory organ, it is situated in the
vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1). As our movements consist of
rotations and translations, the vestibular system c...

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